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Assembly Bill A1528

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Defines word "depicts" to include both words and pictures with respect to crime of disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree

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2009-A1528 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง235.22, Pen L

2009-A1528 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines word "depicts" to include both words and pictures with respect to crime of disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree.

2009-A1528 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1528

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. COLTON, BENEDETTO, ZEBROWSKI, GREENE, GIGLIO,
  RAIA, JAFFEE, SCHIMEL, PHEFFER,  MAISEL,  CLARK,  WALKER,  TOBACCO  --
  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.   ABBATE, BACALLES, CONTE, CROUCH,
  DUPREY, GORDON, JOHN, McDONOUGH, QUINN, REILLY, SPANO, SWEENEY, TOWNS,
  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of disseminating
  indecent material to minors in the first degree

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  235.22  of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 8 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1. knowing the character and content of the  communication  which,  in
whole  or  in  part,  depicts or describes, either in words, PICTURES or
images actual or simulated nudity, sexual  conduct  or  sado-masochistic
abuse, and which is harmful to minors, he intentionally uses any comput-
er  communication  system  allowing  the  input,  output, examination or
transfer, of computer data or computer programs  from  one  computer  to
another,  to  initiate or engage in such communication with a person who
is a minor; and
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04324-01-9

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